So apparently Gordon Brown has been roughing up civil servants in the back rooms of Westminister.
ClashMusic can sympathise. We have to work with Fifers as well…
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Single Of The Week
Crookers (ft Miike Snow) – Remedy
Italian house agitators get us all roughed up ready for the very long awaited debut album ‘Tons of Friends’ with this rule bending, thieving little monster. With yet another collaboration leading the vocal charge, we are treated to one of 2009’s true success stories: Miike Snow joining the fray. Oscillating notes lead us in with Miike’s hushed and beckoning monologue that quickly shifts into splintered edits, building bleeps and old school breakbeat samples. The drop is coming but it’ll wrong foot many a sure soled raver as they eventually ride rough shod over any notion of club convention with a break that’s simultaneously soulful and shattered beast. Structurally its a delight, bobbing and weaving with all the 8Bit, bastardised and brooding funk we have come to expect and need from these two lords of fucked up club bangers. Bring on the album lads.
Clash has the live album stream from March 1st so check back for the full long player.
And the rest…
Blood Red Shoes – Light It Up
Gouge this into your iPod today. BRS strip things back to their rawest for some time and unleash a massive ode to the Pixies. Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell prove less is more with tender drive that explodes into huge walls of grunge’d up sonic semtex. Their new album ‘Fire Like This’ is out next week and witnessed the pair taking things back to their lo-fi roots yet injects it with the energy borne through unbridled confidence.
Chiddy Bang – The Opposite Of Adults
What’s the opposite of Adults? Kids. And here these NY rappers sample the melody of MGMT’s anthem of 2009 by the same name to deploy their lyric flips. This is the music equivalent of going route one and cutting out that annoying part of the showbiz career where you tour toilets and get heckled for years whilst praying to the ghost of Simon Cowell for fame. Or Maybe an advert. Luckily Chiddy Bang are great pals with MGMT so they aint getting sued and luckily for us their singing is big enough to ride the canonical synth work and actually make it work. Their second move might be a bit tricky after launching so big – but going off the success and mainstream appeal of their debut we expect to be surprised.
Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed
It’s time to call a stop to this. Mixing genres is never a good idea, much like a Griffin – part lion, part bird sounds good on paper but in reality your going to get a mess. And an angry lion. The point? Well why mix folk with electro? Ellie Goulding completely missed the charts last year, but with full weight of a major label behind her the singer can’t fail to hit the spot. Just a shame she has to do it with such flimsy material. (RM)
Wolfmother – White Feather
It’s time to party like it 1969 with these Australian degenerates. Discounted by many after having two thirds of the band walk out, Wolfmother’s return proved that Andrew Stockdale’s wailing vocals would sound supreme no matter who was backing him. Well perhaps not Ellie Goulding. (RM)
